Award winning authors Mary Camarillo and Debra Thomas write Southern Californian stories. Debra’s novel “Luz” was endorsed by Luis J. Rodriguez. “Luz” conveys, with compassion and insight, the plight of those desperate to cross the US border. Debra’s second novel “Josie and Vic” was shortlisted for the 2023 Hawthorne prize and is a story of love, loss, and forgiveness. You can find out more about Debra and her work at https://debrathomasauthor.com/.
Mary Camarillo’s second novel “Those People Behind Us” is set in the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices, divisions that change the lives of five neighbors searching for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.
Kirkus described “Those People Behind Us” as “mesmerizing . . . A worthwhile read with characters who grapple with timely political conundrums.” New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal called the book a “beautiful, propulsive masterwork of empathy.”
Mary’s first novel “The Lockhart Women” won multiple awards including the 2022 Indie Author Project for California adult fiction. You can find out more about Mary at https://marycamarillo.com/
